Richard “Lowtax” Kyanka, creator of Somethingawful, has died

Re:Richard “Lowtax” Kyanka, creator of Somethingawful, has died by parineum on Thursday November 11, 2021 @08:34AM (#29187641)

> If someone steals my phone at the bar and everyone at the table sees them do it, then tells you exactly what happened with the same story - would you say "no, this is _not credible_. It is not something I am able to believe could happen and it is not plausible". Surely not. It would be a credible allegation.

This is a pretty good scenario for explaining why accounts like this can be not credible.

A is at the table and "sees" B steal his phone. A accuses B of stealing his phone in front of C, D and E. Cop receives testimony from A, C, D and E that is all the same story.

Eye witness testimony is not that valuable when people have conferred with each other.

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Re:Richard “Lowtax” Kyanka, creator of Somethingawful, has died by IanCal on Thursday November 11, 2021 @07:04PM (#29194846)

I think you're mixing up credible and correct.

Five matching witness testimonies can be both incorrect and credible. To say that they are not believable is, frankly, bizarre to me. The example is bereft of detail so you can obviously make up a situation which matches it and it is not believable but that would ignore the point here.

A simple rephrasing is that you can make credible false allegations.

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